Quotes About Innocence

Children are soft and supple, open-minded and unpretentious.

His best companions, innocence and health;And his best riches, ignorance of wealth.

Only the young die good.

There is no way back to certainty, simplicity and innocence, only the way forward into confusion, uncertainty and knowingness. The gasps of wonder become the sardonic bark of disbelief. Absurdity is the new sublime

Pretty much all the honest truth telling in the world is done by children.

Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children.

When I grow up, I am going to write for children — and grownups that haven't grown up too much — all the earth-songs I now do hear.

What a holy thing uncorrupted virginity is, I thought.

We continued to walk without talking. I thought that from now on I will carefully look at the faces of women I encounter, and to some degree, the innocent, transparent beauty of Mabo will appear in all of their faces. Women have become womanly. But the change is not in the women before the world war. The new womanliness has experienced the suffering of war

En verdad que entre la Inocencia y el Mal no hay mayor separación que el grosor de una hoja de papel.

Drinkers tend to say inane and obnoxious things when they're drunk, but most of them are in fact harmless, innocent souls like this.

Lo? dükkân?n içinde oturmu? gülümseyen Yo?iko'nun beyaz yüzü. Kir pas tutmaz "bekâret" sözcü?ü bile hafif kal?r.

I have seen three pictures of the man. The Yozo we knew was so easy-going and amusing, and if only he hadn't drunk—no, even though he did drink—he was a good boy, an angel.

But the planes have a new elegant shape. Not one unnecessary ornament." "Yes," said Mabo softly and watched the planes fly off through the sky with a childlike innocence. "A form with no unneeded ornaments is nice.

Even if their faces turn pale, what kind of proof would that be? And on the other hand if they laugh with no concern at all, that doesn't mean they're not guilty. We could of course judge the sharpness or dullness of their senses, but we can't judge their innocence.

Nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion.

encontré una tacita de porcelana que se había caído de un poste. Recordé que cuando eramos chicos las rompíamos con la honda y eso me dio un poco de tristeza. Sin saber por qué me la guardé en el bolsillo y la fui acariciando con los dedos mientras pensaba en los tiempos del colegio, cuando creía que tenía una vida por delante.

Purity is not innocence, it is much more. Purity is the outcome of sustained spiritual sympathy with God. We have to grow in purity.

God does not make us holy in the sense that He makes our character holy. He makes us holy in the sense that He has made us innocent before Him. And then we have to turn that innocence into holy character through the moral choices we make.

To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.

The old man was silent: the truth suggested itself to him with the boy's innocent answer. He was tied to a bed of dried leaves in the corner of a wattle hut, but he had not wholly forgotten what the ways of the world were like.

Animalism," forsooth!—a more unfair word don't exist. When we animals never drink except just enough to satisfy thirst, never eat except when wo have genuine appetites, never indulge in any sort of debauch, and never strain excess till we sink into the slough of satiety, shall "animalism" be a word to designate all that men and women dare to do? "Animalism!" you ought to blush for such a libel on our innocent and reasonable lives when you regard your own

Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination.

Their eyelashes were moist, and small drops of sweat beaded their upper lips. I regarded their slumber, almost innocent in its foolish thoughtlessness and its oblivion of all danger and the outside world. Is this what human beings call happiness?